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    • J
      Jett129
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      Can’t remember the last time someone used Jets and Realize in the same sentence.

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      • OaktaviaO
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        😃

        IG: electricindigowizard

        "Possibly splitting hairs, but I consider @Oaktavia to be the beardy, dank High Magus of this denim game…" @neph93

        WTB: IHJ-32 - XL/XXL

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        • MattM
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          You mean like “I realize the Jets are a real football team but…”

          I kid.  There but for the grace of God…

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          • MattM
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            I will never understand why year after year teams play poorly, get an early 1st round pick and use it on a new QB instead of trading it for multiple picks they could use to strengthen their foundational positions.  The winning teams do just fine picking late and even trading away what 1st round picks they do have.

            Actually I do understand. If your team has a shitty GM you may as well just give up before the season starts.  And those college kids always look so happy on draft day.  Deion Sanders should just say “Congratulations kid, you’re rich.  You’ll never win another game but you can buy your mom a house.”

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            • OaktaviaO
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              @Matt:

              You’ll never win another game but you can buy your mom a house.”

              LMFAO

              IG: electricindigowizard

              "Possibly splitting hairs, but I consider @Oaktavia to be the beardy, dank High Magus of this denim game…" @neph93

              WTB: IHJ-32 - XL/XXL

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              • OaktaviaO
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                "Possibly splitting hairs, but I consider @Oaktavia to be the beardy, dank High Magus of this denim game…" @neph93

                WTB: IHJ-32 - XL/XXL

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                • MattM
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                  I don’t wanna hear any shit about missed delay of game calls.  Every team gets bad calls once in a while.  The Ravens get their fair share.  That’s football.  66 yards is beast mode.  I’ll take that win any day of the week.

                  The last Ravens Lions game on 12/16/13 included a game winning 61 yd FG from Tucker.  I remember this game because I watched it from the maternity room fold out bed on the day my daughter was born.  She was so fucking loud and obnoxious they made her sleep in the nursery because no one on the floor could sleep.  Our pediatrician happened to be there who we knew from our older girl.  He came in after checking on her and said, with a distressed look on his face “Caroline… is not a happy child.”  Update:  she hasn’t changed much.

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                  • OaktaviaO
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                    Haha Tucker man…66 yard FG record holder.

                    That's an amazing story, thanks for sharing.

                    IG: electricindigowizard

                    "Possibly splitting hairs, but I consider @Oaktavia to be the beardy, dank High Magus of this denim game…" @neph93

                    WTB: IHJ-32 - XL/XXL

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                      @Matt:

                      I don’t wanna hear any shit about missed delay of game calls.  Every team gets bad calls once in a while.  The Ravens get their fair share.  That’s football.  66 yards is beast mode.  I’ll take that win any day of the week.

                      The last Ravens Lions game on 12/16/13 included a game winning 61 yd FG from Tucker.  I remember this game because I watched it from the maternity room fold out bed on the day my daughter was born.  She was so fucking loud and obnoxious they made her sleep in the nursery because no one on the floor could sleep.  Our pediatrician happened to be there who we knew from our older girl.  He came in after checking on her and said, with a distressed look on his face “Caroline… is not a happy child.”  Update:  she hasn’t changed much.

                      Go Ravens! Tucker is the GOAT

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                        Meanwhile the Rams looked pretty for real today. Hope this works out for Mathew Stafford.

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                        • MattM
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                          The Rams for sure look legit.  Fortunately we have the season to build up some momentum.  We’ll be in pre playoff mode by the time we meet up.  Or we’ll be done.  Time will tell.

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                            I was so pissed when the Saints got jobbed against the Rams, who at that time were not good, resulting in the most unwatchable Super Bowl in history. I believe the Saints would have taken the Patriots and brought another Lombardi to New Orleans.

                            The Rams do look like a different team now.

                            Think it, be it.

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                              Yeah, but you can't blame Detroit fans for being pissed at that. It's about as consequential as a missed call goes and about as easy and routine of a call to make in football. There's a guy whose job it is to watch the clock and the snap. Bad time to fuck that up. That kick obviously doesn't make it from 71 yards out.

                              Think it, be it.

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                                @mclaincausey:

                                Yeah, but you can't blame Detroit fans for being pissed at that. It's about as consequential as a missed call goes and about as easy and routine of a call to make in football. There's a guy whose job it is to watch the clock and the snap. Bad time to fuck that up. That kick obviously doesn't make it from 71 yards out.

                                I didn't even catch this yesterday because I was so nervous about what was happening… Followed by me jumping up and down in my living room with my lady.

                                I just read an article about it and there apparently should have been a 5 yard delay of game penalty...which is why you're referring to 71 yards out...I get what you're saying now. Would have been a much different day for me if it had gone down that way.

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                                "Possibly splitting hairs, but I consider @Oaktavia to be the beardy, dank High Magus of this denim game…" @neph93

                                WTB: IHJ-32 - XL/XXL

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                                  Yeah…. and not al missed calls are equal. A bum PI call with some time left, the opponent has time to offset the mistake. This one really took a game that was almost in the bag (if not for a heroic kick) away from the Lions at home. It is brutal, and I say that as someone who has no dog in the fight.

                                  Think it, be it.

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                                    I don’t know how people can wager money on Football with the officiating being as inconsistent as it is, and @mclaincausey the non pass interference call in that Rams/Saints game might be one of the worst ever,and then the Saints had to endure the miracle in Minnesota the following year.

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                                      Yeah, it's one reason I'm slowly falling out of love with football @Jett129 . It just seems too arbitrary, has a shitty rulebook that is inconsistently applied and requires more human judgment calls than are necessary (the rules defining catches are dumb, a fumble through the end zone awarding possession to your opponent without them actually doing anything to secure the football is dumb, the replay system has strange exemptions from challenge, and I could go on), Goodell runs the league as his personal fiefdom and drops the axe on a player smoking a little weed while letting much more serious offenses like domestic abuse effectively run rampant, the very real TBI issues they somehow skated by on (honestly this should've been a death sentence–this is now almost gladiatorial combat knowing what happens to these players), their classification of the league as a tax-exempt organization that IMO is unearned, their owners' reliance on the public to subsidize stadiums so that we taxpayers can enjoy the privilege of paying $1 an ounce for shitty beer down the road, etc.... Why is the NFL on welfare?

                                      Football is especially vulnerable to officiating nonsense because of the paucity of plays relative to most other major sports and the lack of continuous play that sports like soccer, hockey, and to a lesser extent basketball have. So bungling a single call can have an outsized impact, and it just keeps happening at the most consequential moments. So why be a fan if they can't consistently and fairly officiate and your blood, sweat, and tears are so easily overridden and everything seems, if not rigged, very vulnerable to rigging? How do Saints fans not believe that the officiating on that final drive was not a deliberate effort to get the old-new major market team in the Super Bowl?

                                      If the game were more about strategy and athleticism and less about the zebras it would make it easier to be a fan. If feels like it used to be that way, but I could be misremembering.

                                      Still love the game, but it has some very serious issues that are hard for me to get past.

                                      Think it, be it.

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                                        I agree 100% with everything you said and you said it quite eloquently,but at this point it's the only sport my wife and I enjoy. We both watch it and end up shaking our heads at times. I don't watch as much as I used to. There was an NBA ref who went to prison for fixing games and subsequently wrote a book about it. Surprised it's never happened in the NFL.

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                                        • JoberwockyJ
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                                          My wife's first and really only sport she'll watch with me is baseball.  While the strikezone is occasionally arbitrary, the rules are clear and more often than not there a solid.element of strategy involved (I'm a National league guy, boooo universal DH).  I was real big on football until the eagles won the Superbowl (legit thought I'd never see it) and since then it's become.somethung of a slog to watch.  Penalities and officiating are ruining the NBA and NFL for me.

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                                          • MattM
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                                            @mclaincausey your rant is bitter and angry in all the right places.  I approve.

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